If stats from U.K. music e-tailer 7 Digital are any indication by way of Ars Technica, then the answer to the headline would be, "yes." Music with digital rights management DRM is four times less likely to sell than tracks without DRM protection. Additionally, those who buy DRM-free music are...
The United Kingdom's British Sky Broadcasting plc has a plan to download first-run movies, to be stored on a direct-to-home satellite receiver's digital video recorder in encrypted format. When a viewer wants to see the movie and buys the decryptio The United Kingdom's British...
Widevine Technologies today announced it hassigned a global reseller agreement with the Home and Networks MobilityDivision of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), underscoring their close alignmentin offering proven video solutions for service operators. The agreementenables Motorola to sell, service and support Widevine's downloadableconditional access and digital rights management products globally. Motorola...
AladdinKnowledge Systems (NASDAQ: ALDN), an information security leaderspecializing in authentication, software DRM and content security, todayannounced that the Computer Technology Industry Association CompTIA named Aladdin HASP SRM , theindustry's strongest software digital rights management system and the onlyintegrated software- and hardware-based IP protection and licensingsolution, a finalist for its...
Wireless News02-21-2008Yummy Interactive Releases 'GameShield' for Game DistributionWIRELESS NEWS-February 21, 2008-Yummy Interactive Releases 'GameShield' for Game Distribution C2008 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com Yummy Interactive, a global leader in secure digital distribution technology for video games, has announced the release of GameShield, a copy protection and license-management software suite geared...
Yummy Interactive's New Universal Digital Rights Management Targets Game Publishers and Developers VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Yummy Interactive, a global leader in secure digital distribution technology for video games, is pleased to announce the launch of GameShield[TM], a copy protection and license-management software suite geared exclusively to game...
Mobile content provider Jamba known as Jamster in the States said this week that it would be the first company of its kind in Europe to offer music on a cell phone without DRM. The firm says it has signed a deal with music...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-14 February 2008-Play.com launches PlayDigital service for DRM-free downloadsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com A music download service which offers unprotected songs from record company EMI and independent labels, has been launched by Play.com, an online retailer. Play.com said the PlayDigital service will enable users to download...
NEW YORK -- Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Thursday that it has agreed to sell digital downloads of its tunes without copy protections on Amazon.com, giving the online retailer a boost in its effort to overtake Apple's iTunes. Later this month, when Amazon begins to sell Sony BMG...
The last of the four music majors is to sell music without copyright protection in the universal MP3 format Business Analysis The final domino just went down. Until this week, SonyBMG had been the last of the four major record label groups insisting...
NEW YORK AFP — Amazon and Warner Music Group are offering music downloads that would have no copy protection, making them playable on virtually any digital audio device, the companies announced Thursday. The Internet retail giant's digital music store, Amazon MP3, will launch sales of the music downloads...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Protexis, the leader in digital content distribution for retailers, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 7,200,760 to Protexis, as well as approved the claims of a forthcoming patent that expand the company's patent holdings surrounding its product activation-based system...
Amazon.com Selection: More than 2 million MP3 tracks, free of copy protection DRM, from such artists as Feist, Kanye West, KT Tunstall and Pink Floyd. Quality and price: Every song is encoded at a high-quality 256 kilobits per second kbps. Tracks cost 89 cents to 99...
Widevine® Technologies, the leading providerof downloadable conditional access DCAS, digital rights management anddigital copy protection for over 125 video operators worldwide todayannounced the immediate availability of the Widevine CableCard. This QAMand IP-based hardware solution enables multichannel video programmingdistributors MVPDs to provide a two-way downloadable conditional accesssolution for protecting premium...
Widevine Technologies, the leadingprovider of downloadable conditional access, digital rights management anddigital copy protection solutions for 125+ video operators worldwide, todayannounced that its highly successful Widevine Cypher® for the PC solutionhas won the prestigious Cable & Satellite International Product of the YearAward for Best Content Protection at the International BroadcastersConference...
The Digital Freedom Campaign today announcedits support of Wal-Mart's decision to offer DRM-free music to its customerson its website. The world's largest retailer has announced it will offerits new MP3 music catalog including thousands of albums and songs frommajor record labels like Vivendi's Universal Music Group and EMI Groupwithout...
Byline: Niranjan Mudholkar Jun. 19--One of the most ubiquitous scenes that you will observe outside many railway stations in Mumbai is of people selling pirated CDs and DVDs. Nowadays, it's become very easy for anybody to create such multiple copies and sell them...
- EMI's Digital Catalog Only - No More Bonding of iTunes, iPods Apple's iTunes has, as it previously announced, started selling DRM-free music tracks with higher audio quality 256 Kbps AAC encoding. The tracks, from EMI,...